Healthy, Resilient, and Sustainable Communities After Disasters: Strategies, Opportunities, and Planning for Recovery (2015)

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Additional Resources¹

BUILDING SOCIAL COHESION

• Lyttelton Harbour Timebank, a program in which community members trade skills to develop local cohesion and build better trust among residents, available at http://www.lyttelton.net.nz/timebank
• SF72, an emergency preparedness program developed by the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management that emphasizes increasing social connectedness, available at http://www.sf72.org/home

DISASTER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, EMOTIONAL, AND SPIRITUAL CARE

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA’s) Disaster Planning Handbook for Behavioral Health Treatment Programs, available at http://store.samhsa.gov/shin/content/SMA13-4779/SMA13-4779.pdf
• SAMHSA and the National Institute of Environmental Health Science’s efforts to provide worker resiliency training before or after disasters, available at http://tools.niehs.nih.gov/wetp/index.cfm?id=2528
• SAMHSA’s Tips for Talking with and Helping Children and Youth Cope After a Disaster or
• Traumatic Event, available at http://store.samhsa.gov/shin/content/SMA12-4732/SMA12-4732.pdf
• The National Center for Trauma Informed Care (NCTIC), funded by SAMHSA, provides training
• and technical assistance, available at http://www.samhsa.gov/nctic/training-technical-assistance

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¹ All URLs are accessible as of June 17, 2015.

• National Child Traumatic Stress Network’s Parent Guidelines for Helping Children after a Hurricane, available at http://www.nctsn.org/sites/default/files/assets/pdfs/parents_guidelines_talk_children_hurricanes.pdf
• National Child Traumatic Stress Network’s Helping Young Children and Families Cope with Trauma, available at http://nctsn.org/sites/default/files/assets/pdfs/Helping_Young_Children_and_Families_Cope_with_Trauma.pdf
• National Child Traumatic Stress Network’s After the Hurricane: Helping Young Children Heal, available at http://www.nctsnet.org/nctsn_assets/pdfs/edu_materials/Helping_Young_Children_Heal.pdf
• Traumatic Loss Coalitions for Youth’s Helping Children Cope in the Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, available at http://www.spanadvocacy.org/sites/g/files/g524681/f/files/HelpingChildrenCopeinAftermathofHurricane.pdf
• National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster’s (VOAD’s) Spiritual Care Guidelines, available at http://www.nvoad.org/resource-center

DISASTER CASE MANAGEMENT

• FEMA’s Disaster Case Management: Program Guidance, a program that provides assistance in accessing disaster-specific federal benefits, available at http://www.fema.gov/media-librarydata/20130726-1908-25045-2403/dcm_pg_final_3_8_13.pdf
• National VOAD’s Tools for State VOADs to Prepare for Disaster Case Management, available at http://www.nvoad.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/tools_for_state_voads_to_prepare_for_dcm_-_draft_-_2012.pdf
• HHS’s Concept of Operations for Immediate Disaster Case Management at https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ohsepr/immediate_dcm_concept_of_operations_conops_october_2012_508_compliant.pdf

HEALTH CARE SYSTEM RECOVERY

• Harvard School of Public Health and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Essential Functions and Considerations for Hospital Recovery, available at https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1608/2014/09/HSPH-Emergency-Preparedness-ResponseExercise-Program_Hospital-Recovery.pdf
• USA Center for Rural Public Health Preparedness at Texas A&M University’s Partnering to Achieve Rural Emergency Preparedness: A Workbook for Healthcare Providers in Rural Communities, available at http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/sites/default/files/public/php/318/318_workbook.pdf

MEASURING AND ASSESSING COMMUNITY HEALTH STATUS

• Community Commons’ Community Health Needs Assessment toolkit, a platform that aids hospitals and other organizations working to understand a community’s health needs and improve overall health and well-being, available at http://assessment.communitycommons.org/CHNA
• Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP), a framework using a six-phase process (organizing, visioning, assessments, strategic issues, goals/strategies, and action cycle) to enable communities to prioritize and address public health issues, available at http://www.naccho.org/topics/infrastructure/mapp/framework/index.cfm
• County Health Rankings (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin), an annual measurement of health factors for each county in each state in the country, available at http://www.countyhealthrankings.org
• America’s Health Rankings^®, a state-by-state assessment of the nation’s health, available at http://www.americashealthrankings.org/about/annual
• The Sustainable Communities Index’s (SCI’s) set of methods to measure the environmental, economic, and social conditions of cities and neighborhoods that affect human health, available at http://www.sustainablecommunitiesindex.org

• Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA’s) Health Professional Shortage Area scores, which assess baseline needs and help develop disaster plans, available at http://www.hrsa.gov/shortage/find.html

MODEL POST-DISASTER RECOVERY PLANS AND PLANNING GUIDES

• APA’s Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery: Next Generation, available at https://www.planning.org/pas/reports/pdf/PAS_576.pdf
• Florida Department of Community Affairs and Florida Division of Emergency Management’s Post-Disaster Redevelopment Plan: A Guide for Florida Communities, available at http://www.floridadisaster.org/recovery/documents/Post%20Disaster%20Redevelopment%20Planning%20Guidebook%20Lo.pdf
• Hillsborough County’s Post-Disaster Redevelopment Plan, available at http://www.hillsboroughcounty.org/index.aspx?nid=1795
• Pinellas County’s Post-Disaster Redevelopment Plan, available at http://www.tbrpc.org/tampabaydisaster/pinellaspdrp/pdf/doc/PinellasPDRP_June2012.pdf
• Fairfax County’s Pre-Disaster Recovery Plan, available at http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/oem/pdrp/pdrp-complete-doc-march2012.pdf
• Belfer Center’s Lessons from Katrina: How a Community Can Spearhead Successful Disaster Recovery, which uses the Broadmoor neighborhood’s redevelopment as the model for a community-driven planning process, available at http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/17815/lessons_from_katrina.html

PLANNING FOR VULNERABLE POPULATIONS, INCLUDING CHILDREN

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Public Health Workbook to Define, Locate, and Reach Special, Vulnerable, and At-risk Populations in an Emergency, available at http://www.bt.cdc.gov/workbook/pdf/ph_workbookfinal.pdf
• RAND’s Enhancing Public Health Emergency Preparedness for Special Needs Populations: A Toolkit for State and Local Planning and Response, available at http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR681.html
• RAND’s Special Needs Populations Mapping for Public Health Preparedness, a Web-based mapping tool that public health agencies can use to locate vulnerable populations in their communities, available at http://www.rand.org/health/projects/special-needs-populations-mapping
• ASTHO and CDC planning guidance for at-risk populations during a pandemic, available at http://www.astho.org/Programs/Infectious-Disease/At-Risk-Populations
• Administration for Children and Families’ (ACF’s) Children and Youth Task Force in Disasters: Guidelines for Development, available at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ohsepr/childrens_task_force_development_web.pdf
• New Jersey Department of Children and Families’ Sheltering Guidelines for Children and Families, available at http://nj.gov/dcf/home/Sheltering%20Guidance%20for%20Children%20and%20Families.pdf

POST-DISASTER RECOVERY TOOLS

• FEMA’s Community Recovery Management Toolkit, “a compilation of guidance, case studies, tools, and training to assist local communities in managing long-term recovery following a disaster,” available at http://www.fema.gov/national-disaster-recovery-framework/community-recovery-management-toolkit

• Coordinated Assistance Network (CAN), which allows information sharing among multiple disaster relief organizations, available at http://www.can.org/images/CommunityIntro.pdf
• National VOAD’s Long Term Recovery Guide, available at http://www.nvoad.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/long_term_recovery_guide_-_final_2012.pdf
• AARP’s Disaster Recovery Toolkit, which provides policy information, tools, and resources for building more livable communities after disasters, available at http://www.aarp.org/livablecommunities/tool-kits-resources/info-2015/disaster-recovery-tool-kit.html

PROMOTING INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY PREPAREDNESS

• FEMA’s Are You Ready?: An In-depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness, available at http://www.fema.gov/pdf/areyouready/areyouready_full.pdf
• SF72, an emergency preparedness program developed by the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management that emphasizes increasing social connectedness, available at http://www.sf72.org/home
• National VOAD, a forum where member organizations share information and resources to promote community resiliency and to provide support to people affected by disasters, available at http://www.nvoad.org/resource-center

WORKER AND HOMEOWNER HEALTH PROTECTION RESOURCES

• The National Clearinghouse for Worker Safety and Health Training, available at http://tools.niehs.nih.gov/wetp/index.cfm
• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development resources on post-disaster housing repair and restoration, available at http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/healthy_homes/disasterrecovery